IIS and FastCGI/Scripting languages/Perl

This tutorial will teach you how to get IIS working with FastCGI, and Perl. We will be using FCGI::IIS. These steps should be followed in order. Further documentation on FCGI::IIS, can be found directly on CPAN.

Install FCGI::IIS

Strawberry Perl: perl -MCPAN -e'install FCGI::IIS'

ActiveState

ppm install FCGI

ppm install http://www.cosmicscripts.com/modules/perl/FCGI-IIS.ppd ^[1]

Additions to fcgiext.ini

Add the following to the [Perl] stanza:

Arguments="-MFCGI::IIS=test"
QueueLength=999
MaxInstances=20
InstanceMaxRequests=500

Which should make the .ini file read something like:

[Types]
pl=Perl

[Perl]
ExePath=C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe
Arguments="-MFCGI::IIS=test"
QueueLength=999
MaxInstances=20
InstanceMaxRequests=500

Notice FCGI::IIS=test: this gets a test up and running. To develop or run production with FCGI::IIS, or after your test succeeds remove the FCGI::IIS. Further information can be found in FCGI::IIS docs.

Arguments="-MFCGI::IIS"

Restart website

To restart a website: Start → Administrative Tools → IIS → Expand left panel to Websites → Right click website Stop → Right click website Start.

From this point it should be easily to install Catalyst or whatever other perl framework you'd like.

Footnotes

Much of the information was sourced from ""FastCGI with Perl on IIS 5.1, 6". FastCGI and Perl. CosmicScripts.com."
^ http://cosmicscripts.com is a non-official ppm hosting site, hope it is still active.

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